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joining us now white house correspondent for politico and "morning joe" contributor eugene daniels. to balance a tougher stance on crime while not completely alienating progressives. have they seen backlash from their party on this, eugene? >> they've seen progressives for quite some time at this point. there was kind of a perception from progressives when the first chief of staff at the white house was there that they had like a best, best friend. that was something he had cultivated over his years, many years in d.c. and since he's left, they felt like they had a little bit less of a friend as we've gotten closer to the election. you have seen president biden's kind of moderate streak come out more, right, but that's also because there's just less action happening in this building behind me here, right? there's less action happening on capitol hill, so the push and the argument that he's been doing all of these progressive things and bills kind of no longer holds, and that's something that aides have always pushed back on, as a matter of fact, saying that no one forces joe biden to

i want to bring in eugene daniels, co-author of the political playbook, as well as an msnbc politicaltributor. matt dowd is msnbc political contributor and vaughn hillyard joins me in studio. i'm going to start with something brand new. stephanie ruhle sat down with mitt romney who knows about presidential debates, and she asked him about it. let's just take a listen. i won't try to describe it, let him do it. >> there's talk today about a presidential debate maybe as early as june. i know debates were important to you. they certainly got you a lot of momentum in 2012. do you think they matter today? in many ways we know a lot about the two people running. do you think it will impact votes, maybe even your vote? >> well, the image that comes to mind is those two old guys on the muppet. >> statler and waldorf. >> that's what comes to mind. i think there will be a huge audience for these be debates. i think they have low expectations about what president biden will do, i think they have higher expectations about president trump and his combativeness. >> what are your expectations? we'll

vaughn hillyard, mark leibovich, eugene daniel, thank you so much. >>> joining us now john kasich, foreignerernor. thanks for being with us. i want you to give me your opinion on what david from is arguing that haley's voters are not gettable by donald trump. >> you know, it's probably true. you know, i'm not sure that they were so much for haley as much as they were not for donald trump. and by the way, it seems as though politics has become an awful lot about expediency. i was one of those people who walked away. it wasn't that important to me -- well, first of all, when i didn't win in 2016, i had a shot at doing this again, and the fact of the matter is you cannot do -- you can, it's not wise to do a political calculation today based on what might happen down the road. senator and former governor george moin vich used to say take care of stuff today and what happens tomorrow will take care of itself. so i think haley's decision, by the way, was based on expediency. i think she felt that if she didn't do this she wouldn't be viable in the future. who knows what the future's going to bring

eugene daniels and mini timmaraju are back with us.bill because i am fired up. this particular bill started because the state senator in louisiana and her husband and sister, i think he is in jail at this point, put abortion pills into her drink, into our water, multiple times, several different times. she found out what was happening, recorded him and so, yes, she recorded him and everything so the state senator came up with this bill to criminalize people to criminalize that particular act and to protect women so that doesn't happen to them. those same louisiana right to life organization came into lobby to add this particular provision to the bell. that is what changed it. prior to this, it was a bipartisan bill and louisiana right to life came in and that is how this became a law. >> we know the supreme court is about to issue a decision on the mifepristone case. it is so awful it even got to the supreme court but it is looking like we will be able to maintain protections for mifepristone in this country. i am hopeful. i am not hop

with me now "the new york times" peter baker politico's eugene daniels.start with, along with that new tweet mentioning e. jean carroll, there's "the washington post" reporting that trump told donors he would crush pro-palestinian protests and deport protesters. it's the kind of rhetoric that hasn't hurt him in the past, as you and i both know. many people will tell you either it's actually what they like about him or it's just talk, that's donald trump, he doesn't mean it. is there any reason to believe this year with all the attention on his legal woes it will be different? >> we haven't seen it so far. the legal woes are an x factor. not that the trial has changed anything. i don't think you've seen much movement in the polls as a result of the trial, but a verdict might. if he gets either a hung jury or acquittal, he'll trumpet that, it proves he's exonerated, this is all a witch hunt, this is all political. that will solidify his base. if he gets a guilty verdict, it may not make a difference because a lot of that is baked into the system already. th

peter baker and white house correspondent for politico, co-author of the play book eugene daniels ands well just upon hearing them? >> well, i think it is very much at face value that judge merchan last week said he did not want a significant break between the summations of the parties and the actual deliberations. and so by putting this off to start on tuesday, next week, not tomorrow, he avoids that situation because this week they're not sitting on wednesdays, which is typical. they normally don't sit on wednesdays. and they weren't sitting on fridays. it was going to be a significant issue from the judge's perspective. also, we do have, as vaughn said, this potential issue of mr. costello testifying, that's sort of been floated other the weekend as a possible defense witness. it's quite curious. i'm sure joyce has a lot to say about that because mr. costello has already been the subject of a lot of evidence put in by the state of emails and texts with mr. cohen is that really suggested that he was acting on behalf of the former president to try and keep michael cohen in the fold t